Life in a Metro

Interesting Story!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO BUILT BOMBAY?According to ancient history, a grouping of 7 islands comprising Colaba, Mazagaon, Old Womans Island, Wadala, Mahim, Parel, and Matunga-Sion formed a destiny of the kingdom of Ashoka the Great of Magadh, ironically in northeastern India . The Bhaiyas and Biharis whom the Thackerays accuse of being outsiders in Mumbai, come from the region, which was a part of Ashoka the Greats empire.. We judge everything according to history and the history of Mumbaiproves that its earliest known ownership was with a North Indian. The seven islands of Mumbai passed through many hands, the sultans of Gujarat , the Portuguese and the British. Every ruler left fanny proof of residence in Mumbai. The Mauryans left behind the Kanheri, Mahakali and the caves of Gharapuri more(prenominal) popularly called Elephanta. The sultans of Gujarat make the Dargahs at Mahim and Haji Ali, the Portuguese built the two Portuguese churches, one at Prabhadevi and the other St Andrews at Bandra. They also built forts at Sion, Mahim, Bandra and Bassien. The Portuguese named the group of seven Islands Bom Baia, Good Bay . The British built a city out of the group of seven islands and called her Bombay .

The original colonists of the seven islands, the Koli fishermen, worshiped Mumbaidevi, her tabernacle still stands at Babulnath near Chowpatty. The Kolis called the island Mumbai, Mumba, Mother Goddess. In 1662, big businessman Charles II of England married the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, and received the seven islands of Bom Baia as part of his dowry. Six years later, the British Crown hired the seven islands to the English tocopherol India Company for a shopping mall of 10 pounds in gold per annum. It was under the English East India Company that the future megapolis began to take shape, after the first war for independence Bombay once again became a colony of the British Empire . History has forgotten this but the first Parsi settler came to Bombay in 1640,... If you want to get a full essay, rig it on our website: Orderessay

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